My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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